People do good because they are
human,
not because they are religious!

Do not give God any credit for the good they do, they did it!

IGNORANT FAITH OF BIGOTS

The Roman Catholic Church says it is the only religion which enjoys the power of
God to keep it from error. It claims then to be the only true Church. The Church
says there is no salvation for anybody who wilfully refuses to join it. This
includes the person who thinks they should check out the Catholic Church but
doesn't bother. The Church says it enjoys the fullness of the truth that God
needs to give us. It does not mean the Church knows everything.

It is sectarianism to teach, “My Church is right and everybody else’s is wrong”,
when you have little or nothing to support this contention with. Religion will
say the same but it tolerates and nurtures the very blind faith it condemns.

It is bigotry to enter your child into a religion when you don’t have any
evidence that you should and it is not old enough to see the evidence if it
exists. You are putting conformity and the convenience of not upsetting the
family or neighbours before your child’s welfare spiritual and intellectual not
to mention in other ways. It does not bother you that you may be sending your
child into a life of error and self-deceit with possible eternal hellfire at the
end for having been enrolled in the wrong faith.

The average religionist cannot defend her or his faith in any convincing way.
The vast majority of Christians do not understand Christian doctrine. They learn
it in a catechism at school and a few months later it is forgotten. These people
have a merely blind faith. What good is evidence for belief when you don’t know
what your cult teaches? They know that a God would want them to be wise in the
ways of religion. You need to know God and what his principles are. They do not
care and then they call themselves good Christians. How could they be really
good with an attitude like that? Their good works are really bad when they are
done with a sense of loyalty to evil.

Wilful ignorance means you are bent on doing as you wish and do not care what
harm you do with your errors. Anybody who is truly godly would be trying to
become a religious expert or would be one already.

The clergy complain about the ignorance of the reluctance of the people to learn
more. But all the learning tools that are provided are just vague dogmatic books
which are not much good and have no great intellectual depth. They only demolish
the criticisms they can handle and ignore the rest as though they never existed.
There is no productive effort made to eradicate the disease of blind faith.
Blind faith is really fostered by them.

The Church condemns you if you repeat an accusation against a person that has
little or no evidence in its favour. But then it turns around and praises you
for accusing other religions of being wrong when you cannot defend your own
beliefs. It wants to be reckless with everything except itself. Exploitation is
its game. It is bigoted towards you when it does that. It treats you as an
inferior because it wants to think of you as one.

Young children are taken to Church to pray and be indoctrinated. Wafers said to
be the flesh of Christ are thrust into the mouths of seven-year-olds in
Catholicism. Children are expected despite their naivety and inexperience to
believe and are treated as true believers. This is a prime example of
manipulation on the part of the Church. The evil of blind faith and blind
obedience is demanded of the children, degrading them, debasing them, abusing
them. The evil is applauded. Blind faith is treacherous and the priests and
other clergy know it so don’t believe their explanation that their having taken
advantage of children is about instilling good habits. You don’t need to instil
blind faith in a child to instil good habits. Childlike faith, though praised
by Christ, is harmful and gives the clergy an unfair advantage. Children may
believe lots of things on blind faith but that is necessary unlike religious
belief. There is nothing we can do but tell them that the sea exists even if
they have never seen the sea or pictures of it. But that is nothing like telling
them that their parents’ religion is true for when there are so many different
religions it follows that all you can do is tell them what different ones teach
and guide them to make their own choice when they grow up. We have to tell what
is proven but it is wrong to tell them what is not proven. Nobody can prove
their religion - and it is exceptionally hard work if they can - therefore
nobody has their right to indoctrinate their children. Education is to be
fact-based. Otherwise its not education. Religion does not give evidence for
religion to children to help them make up their own minds. Religion is
manipulative.

The clergy don’t give the people any decent evidence for living the way they
tell them to live. They manipulate them to get their blind faith and then they
tell them to oppose or evangelise against other religions which is bigotry. To
enter your child into the Catholic Faith instead of letting the child find her
own path is opposing other religions and it is unfair. It is bigotry to be
against other religions when you don’t know if your own is true. Belief is only
an excuse when it is not solidly based on evidence.

If you take a machete and murder people society will repulse you. But if like
Tony Blair you tell lies to get declaring war and then send good young men on
this war to waste their lives and lose limbs and die you will still be
reasonably liked or respected by society. This shows a tendency to block out the
reality of evil. The same faculty is behind Christians praising this God of
theirs who makes animals to torture each other to death and who makes viruses to
kill innocent babies. If they saw Blair actually doing the killings himself or
if they saw God programming animals to torture it would be a different story.
The lesson from all this is how wilful ignorance can warp us.

Religious morality only leads to lies and unfairness. Take Catholicism. It tries
to turn people against the pill with arguments such as what follows. "The pill
causes havoc with a woman's body. It could damage her fertility forever. It
kills any baby she conceives by preventing implantation. It increases the risk
of breast cancer." The Mormons argue against drinking tea, "It contains a drug
that is bad for you and addictive. It can prevent you sleeping." I could mention
the Jehovah's Witnesses who say that blood transfusions have lead to disease and
AIDS being spread and use that thinking to prevent their members thinking that
blood transfusions may be had. These conniving cults purposely ignore the fact
that there are risks with everything we do. If Catholicism, to pick one out, was
not trying to manipulate women and society to turn against the pill it would
condemn driving a car with a petrol engine and would certainly condemn smoking
which does far more harm than the pill ever could. In reality the reasons given
have nothing to do with Catholicism banning birth control at all. It is because
the Catholics won't admit that their faith is wrong. They are trying to make it
seem that they prohibit because they care. They are insecure about the reasons
for their prohibiting and so they have to use subterfuge. The Church gives out
arguments and evidence that contraception is wrong. They ignore the arguments
they don't want to hear.

We challenge everybody routinely every day. Politely challenge religion but by
asking questions so that the believer has to think. Thinking is the antibiotic
for religion.